Urban Utopias Insights from a Decolonial Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2022.189578Keywords:
Urban utopias, Urban natural, Decolonial turn, Lefebvre, Daily lifeAbstract
Let us rehearse here a theoretical exercise of reflection on urban utopias, a natural urban, that point to alternative society-nature relations and to equitable societal utopian projects empowering social solidarity, other social relations of production, other ways of producing social (and differential) space, and other forms of everyday life capable of confronting capitalist accumulation. From a contemporary Latin American perspective, it would be unfeasible to approach urban utopias and even possible expressions of the natural urban if not from a critical perspective concerning coloniality. Therefore, such a task involves a number of steps. The first concerns utopia, urban utopias and nature. The second involves the demystification of Western modernity and other conceptions of the society-nature relationship, based on the decolonial turn. And the third, founded on Quijano, Walsh and Lefebvre, seeks highlighting the transformative role of everyday life along with alternative ways of producing material life and social existence.
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